2009
Double slide projection and printed text
Variable installation
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
National Geographic consists of two side-by-side slide projections and a text component. The imagery in the piece is derived from a collection of the titular magazine from the 1970’s and 1980’s belonging to the artist’s late father. One projector shows a series of frontal views of different images of mountains, clipped from the magazine. Alongside, another projection shows the clipping’s corresponding back page, making literal a passage from one side of the mountain to the other. The text relays an intimate narrative that moves back and forth through space and time. There are 40 slide images in total that rotate in unison every 7 seconds. This text component can be treated in various ways. In one instance, it was printed on the exhibition’s take-way brochure; in another, it was made available on sheets of paper stacked on a shelf near to the slide projections.
Texts
Connors, Valerie. “The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.” Commissioned by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 2014.link / pdf
Artist's Project adapting National Geographic. Glänta, Issue 4.09, 2009.
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Exhibition History
Notes From Underground, Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway, 2017The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream., Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, 2014
Two Birds, Eighty Mountains and a Portrait of the Artist, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, 2011
Still / Moving / Still, Cultuurcentrum Knokke-Heist, Belgium, 2009
Reviews
O’Neill-Butler, Lauren. “Review: Lisa Tan, Arthouse at the Jones Center." Artforum. April, 2011, p. 222. Print.link / pdf